The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-11
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Bills to be Presented by Them to
the Legislature.


j. r. Saussy, Esq, the County Solicitor,
has prepared the following bills to be sub
mittcd to the Legislature. The bills were
prepared by direction of the County Com
missioners, and read at the meeting yester-
day morning:
SECTION /. The General Assembly Of the State
| of Georgia do enact that the Commissioners of
! Chatham county and ex-offico Judges he. and
| they are hereby authorized and empowered to
sell the site Of the present court house of Chat
| ham county In the city Of Savannah at pubic or
private SALE the proceeds of said sale to be ap-
| piled to the erection of a new court house for
| said county and city of Savannah on more
| commodious location.
SEC. 9. Be IL further enacted that in the event
| that the United States of America shall become
! the purchaser Of the present site Of the court
house of Chatham county for the purpose of
erecting a post Office or other public building,
! the jurisdiction of this State shall theSeupon be
| coded to the government of the United States
in and over the said site in the city Of Savannah
known in the plan of said city as lot letter II,
Percival ward, so long as the said land shall be
used by said government for public purposes.
SEC 3, Be it further enacted that all laws and
parts of laws validating against this act be and
the same are hereby repealed.
The other bill is as follows:
WHEREAS That parcel of land, part of the
old common of the city of Savannah, which by
various acts of the Provincial and State General
Assembly had been dedicated TO the public use
TOT a cemetery OF pubic DufylUR RfOuHu mas
ceased to be used as place for the interment
of the dead, and has not been SO used since the
year 1853; and
WHEREAS Most of the remains of deceased
persons capable of identification have been re-
moved from said cemetery, and the vaults and
monuments that remain are falling into ruin
and decay and the use of the said plot for the
erection of court house and laying off the
adjacent ground for park, will preserve the
dust of the unknown dead from Dissertation
more effectually than to allow the same to be
used for any other purposes
The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do enact:
SECTION THAT the exclusive control of the
parcel of land in the city of Savannah bounded
north by South Broad street, east by the police
barrack and jail lot, south by the pound lot and
west by Abercorn street, and known as the
old Cemetery be and the same is hereby
vested in the Commissioners OF Chatham
county and ex-officio Judges
SEC. q Be it further enacted that the said
Commissioners of Chatham county and ex-
ofiicio Judges are hereby authorized and EN-
powered to use and appropriate so much
of said parcel Of land as may be neces-
sary to erect thereon court house for the use
of said county and the city of Savannah.
Sec. 3. Be il further enacted that In excavat-
ing for the foundations of such court house
building care shall be taken to collect and pre-
serve separately the remains of every person
that may DE eXhumed by such excavatton and
such remains shall be decently cotfined and re-
inferred either in the vacant parts of said old
Cemetery or in any other cemetery
Sec. 4. Be il further enacted that all of the
said parcel of land not required for the erection
of a court house shall be laid out as public
park, and no streets or lanes shall be laid out
through the same
Sec 3. Be it further enacted that all laws and
parts of laws conflicting with this act be and
the same are hereby repealed
After the reading of the bills the County
Commissioners proceeded to other business.
The application of William Fraser for dam
age to his crop on the Waters road was re-
fused Isaac r.. Nathans and William Hart
logger were sworn in as constableS, the former
for the Second and the latter for the Sew
enth district The Commissioners referred
to the County Engineer a communication
from j. W. McAlpin regarding brick cul-
vert on the Augusta road. Bills against the
county to the amount of Sc, no % were or
dared maid